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FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks

09-28-2009, 03:10 AM

Phoronix: FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks

Canonical will be releasing Ubuntu 9.10 at the end of next month while the final release of FreeBSD 8.0 is also expected within the next few weeks. With these two popular free software operating systems both having major updates coming out at around the same time, we decided it warranted some early benchmarking as we see how the FreeBSD 8.0 and Ubuntu 9.10 performance compares. For looking more at the FreeBSD performance we also have included test results from FreeBSD 7.2, the current stable release. In this article are mostly the server and workstation oriented benchmarks with the testing being carried out on a dual AMD Opteron quad-core workstation.

Comment

Between FreeBSD 8.0 and Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6, the BSD operating system did substantially better. However, this is to no surprise as with Ubuntu 9.10 using the Linux 2.6.31 kernel and EXT4 file-system we have witnessed some performance regressions with SQLite when carrying out database insertions. UFS on FreeBSD is not impacted by these problems.

you found that the regression was also solved between Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10.

OK, the system specifications are different between this article and this one (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...0_alpha1&num=4) but still the numbers should be roughly on the same level. In that article you measured an SQlite value of 21.11 while in this article you give a value of 771.13. This cannot be explained by the difference in the system specs...